St john de crevecoeur biography

Hector St. Jean de Crèvecœur Describes the American people, 1782

Hector St. John de Crèvecœur was born in France, but relocated to the colony of New York and married a local woman named Mehitable Tippet. For a period of several years, de Crèvecœur wrote about the people he encountered in North America. The resulting work was widely successful in Europe. In this passage, Crèvecœur attempts to reflect on the difference between life in Europe and life in North America.

The rich and the poor are not so far removed from each other as they are in Europe. Some few towns excepted, we are all tillers of the earth, from Nova Scotia to West Florida. We are a people of cultivators, scattered over an immense territory communicating with each other by means of good roads and navigable rivers, united by the silken bands of mild government, all respecting the laws, without dreading their power, because they are equitable. We are all animated with the spirit of an industry which is unf

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J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur

French-American author, diplomat, and farmer (1735–1813)

For other uses, see Crèvecœur (disambiguation).

J. Hector St. John dem Crèvecoeur
Born	(1735-12-31)December 31, 1735 Caen, France
Died	November 12, 1813(1813-11-12) (aged 77) Sarcelles, France
Other names	Michel Guillaume Jean de Crèvecoeur
Occupation	Writer
Known for	Pro-American writings during the time of the American Revolution
Spouse	Mehitable Tippet

Michel Guillaume Jean dem Crèvecœur (French pronunciation:[miʃɛlɡijomʒɑ̃dəkʁɛvkœʁ]; December 31, 1735 – November 12, 1813), naturalized in New York as John Hector St. John, was a French-American author, diplomat, and farmer.

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Crèvecœur was born on December 31, 1735, in Caen, Normandy, France, to the Comte and Comtesse de Crèvecœur (Count and Countess of Crèvecœur). In 1755 he migrated to New France, in North America. There, he served in the French and I

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St. John de Crèvecoeur

Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur (1735-1813), a French-American farmer and writer, was one of themost perceptive observers of American life in the late 18th century.

Michel Guillaume jean de Crèvecoeur was born in Caen, France, on Jan. 31, 1735. (Later he would sign his first book J. Hector St. John.) After a Jesuit education and a visit in England, where he learned English, he served as a map maker with Louis Montcalm's army in Canada from about 1755 to 1759. He left the army but stayed in the New World, where after a good deal of traveling, working as a surveyor, and note-taking, he became a farmer, first in Ulster County, then in Orange County, N.Y.

In 1769 Crèvecoeur married Mehitable Tippet, by whom he had three children, the eldest being named America-Francés. For a time his life was idyllic, but the American Revolution interrupted it. Unwilling to commit himself to either side at the time, he tried to visit France, which led to his imprisonment b